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Comment on Hello There! Let Me Introduce Myself… by admin

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:28:26 +0000

Thanks Lee! You are so right – I’ve just this minute finished watching the video ’starring’ Anthony Robbins, John Reese and Frank Kern and I’m going to make a blog post about it because it’s going to help a lot of aspiring internet marketers – it was very, very helpful

Comment on Hello There! Let Me Introduce Myself… by lee jones

lee jones — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:32:14 +0000

Nice Intro Miranda, we all struggle with many things as we find new ways of building an on line presence, the survivors are those that succeed, while others give up !

Comment on Affiliate Link Cloaker – Simple To Use …and Free by Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:40:45 +0000

Oh, I see.
I’ll give it a go!

Thanks so much for following up.

Margaret

Comment on Affiliate Link Cloaker – Simple To Use …and Free by admin

admin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:19:15 +0000

Hello Margaret,

Yes, it certainly would conflict with your main index page IF you uploaded it to the main root folder – but you don’t …if you look again at the instructions above, you can note that we make a new folder in the root domain (in the example below I’ve called the new folder: your-affiliate-folder), calling it whatever you want, and the new index page that you make goes in there.

So the finished, full url of that folder and page you are making looks like this (I am leaving the : and . out just for the purposes of showing it here – of course, you’ll put it in as normal):

http //www your-root-domain.com/your-affiliate-folder/index.html

As index pages open by default, then you won’t need to add the ‘index.html’ in the url, so it can just be:

http //www your-root-domain.com/your-affiliate-folder/

2. re: the Apache part, I am not very technical but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t – I am also with Hostgator and have no problem with this method.

Just try it and see – it really is quite simple – and you will see whether it ends up on the right page when you test-click your link after setting it up.

Let me know if you still find you have any problem.

Good Luck!

Comment on Affiliate Link Cloaker – Simple To Use …and Free by Margaret

Margaret — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:52:41 +0000

I’m having real trouble setting up link cloaking on my hostgator website (to be). I have 2 questions about your method:

1) If the notepad link cloak is saved as index.html or index.htm won’t that conflict with the home page index.html?

2) Does this method of cloaking require the server to have Apache with mod_rewrite module enabled?

Many thanks for your comment.
Margaret

Comment on Bloggers! Stay Ahead of New FTC Laws on Affiliate Marketing by Google Starts Clamp-Down On Affiliate Review Sites | Web Tips and Hints for Webmasters and Marketers

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:07:50 +0000

[...] I posted about the FTC starting a similar clean-up campaign which many people decided to ignore but I don’t think we’ll be able to ignore [...]

Comment on Bloggers! Stay Ahead of New FTC Laws on Affiliate Marketing by admin

admin — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:38:50 +0000

Hello Tammy,

I hate regulations too. However, I think this regulation is a good one and necessary for the future of affiliate marketing. If Google hadn’t clamped down on spammy websites cluttering up the search engines, in the end people would have stopped using search engines – and so it is with affiliate review sites which is one of the major ways of promoting products online. Most of the so-called review sites are not really honest reviews …the ‘my top pic’ is nearly always the one with the biggest affiliate payout!

If it isn’t regulated in some way, a year or so down the line all review sites will be totally ignored by web visitors. I don’t know how effective this regulation will be but at least it’s a step in the right direction:)

By the way, for anyone interested in collectibles, your site is great

Comment on Bloggers! Stay Ahead of New FTC Laws on Affiliate Marketing by Tammy

Tammy — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:28:18 +0000

Hi! It was great skyping with you today.
I personally think this regulation is a load of BS. I hate regulation generally – i just think that it starts with the best of intentions but snowballs quite quickly. Generally though i think that the market takes care of it – if people demand disclosure, affiliates will start to disclose…
However, what is the point? it doesn’t change the price that product creators will sell it for, so who cares? Would love to hear your thoughts!
~tammy

Comment on Web Tips by admin

admin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:30:12 +0000

Zack emailed me the other day to say that the problem had been simply that his computer had run out of memory!

I have included this here as it may help someone else with the same problem in the future

Comment on Web Tips by admin

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:03:08 +0000

Zack, go back again and have another go, try different dates – do it when you are in relaxed mood because you may be ‘missing something’ if you’re feeling tense
If you still can’t make it work, come back here and give the EXACT steps you’re making and say each result you get.
Also, try and find a friend who knows computers well (it is so much easier for someone to help when the computers in front of them)